A Question of Character - Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912

About the author

Catherine Ann Boeckmann, an independent scholar, is Communication Specialist at McKinsey & Company in Atlanta.

Summary

Boeckmann links character, literary genre, and science, revealing how major literary works both contributed to and disrupted the construction of race in turn-of-the-century America.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Boeckmann, Catherine Ann Boeckmann, Cathy Boeckmann
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• EAN: 9780817352974
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5297-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 372 g
• Series: Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism; Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies